The Fairy Tale Of The CO2 Paradise Before 1850…A Look At The Real Science
By P Gosselin on 14. December 2024
Was the Earth’s biosphere really in a largely stable CO2 balance before 1850? (Almost) all politicians, scientists from all climate disciplines, the media and international big business are telling us in unison that we are destroying the global climate and that the world is on the brink of extinction. By burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, we are supposedly emitting too much CO2. This gas is blamed to act as a “greenhouse gas” that traps heat in the atmosphere. We supposedly face the threat of runaway global warming if we do not completely stop burning fossil fuels within the next 25 years.
By Fred F. Mueller
Picture 1 South Sea beauty: The beautiful Paua mussels (abalone) are only found in New Zealand waters. They form their shells from limestone (CaCO3), composed of atmospheric CO2 along with a calcium atom and an additional oxygen atom (Photo: Author)
Climate science and the UN claim that the “natural” preindustrial CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has been around 280-300 ppm (parts per million) for at least several hundred thousand years, with minor fluctuations. Since the beginning of industrialization (since around 1850), man-made CO2 emissions have allegedly increased this value to (as of 2023) 419 ppm(1). In order to avert a catastrophe in the form of a global temperature rise of more than 1.5 °C since the beginning of the industrial age, humanity should not release more than 336 additional gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere (one gigaton is one billion tons, also expressed as a petagram (Pg) in some IPCC publications). The departure from the former paradise of complete CO2 harmony between humans and the planet and nature before the fall from grace of industrialization is illustrated in Picture 2a and Picture 2b.
Picture 2a. The claims of Pierre Friedlingstein and his co-authors from Earth System Science Data on the annual development of man-made emissions of CO2 and the absorption of the gas in “natural sinks” from 1850 to the present day. Man-made sources are plotted at the top, the fate of man-made CO2 in the ocean, land and atmosphere reservoirs at the bottom (graphic: Global Carbon Budget 2023(1))
Picture 2b. Illustration of the cumulative quantities of CO2 emissions and the CO2 absorbed in the most important sinks since the beginning of the industrial age. It is assumed that there were no net fluxes of CO2 from the atmosphere to the ocean before 1850. A graphical evaluation of the image shows that the ocean has absorbed a total of 180 Gt of carbon emitted by humans in its depths since 1850, while the land plants would have processed 250 Gt of C into long-lived humus. In contrast, around 290 Gt C supposedly remain in the atmosphere (Graphic: Global Carbon Budget 2023 ) (1)
Are these assumptions really correct?
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